Archaic phrases

[FutureTaoiseach]

"Don't burst the party".

[cry freedom]

A bit of "it"

As in, "Any chance of a bit of it".

[All smooth talkers around here!]

[constitutionus]

"hows your father ?"

i presume someone had to start it way back when

[Toland]

Skinny malink melodeon legs, big banana feet,
Went to the cinema and couldn't find a seat
When he got a seat he fell fast asleep,
Skinny malink melodeon legs, big banana feet

Skipping or hopscotch rhyme, I think.

Or
Skinny malink malogeon legs, umburella feet,
Went to the pictures and couldn't find a seat
When the picture started skinny malink she farted,
Skinny malink melodeon legs, umburella feet

Yours seems expurgated.

I therefore claim precedence for my version (edit: I should credit the intermittently brilliant Hotpress messageboard, which is where I relearnt it a couple of years ago).

[The Field Marshal]

I always liked Childrens Allowance being referred to as the "mickey money".

Always hated every damm thing being referred to as a "yoke".

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The sad ting is that the mickey owners wife was the only one entitled to the mickey money .



I thought every damm thing was simply referred to as a "dat ting" or "dis ting" maybe even "dem tings".


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[ibis]

Or
Skinny malink malogeon legs, umburella feet,
Went to the pictures and couldn't find a seat
When the picture started skinny malink she farted,
Skinny malink melodeon legs, umburella feet

Yours seems expurgated.

I therefore claim precedence for my version (edit: I should credit the intermittently brilliant Hotpress messageboard, which is where I relearnt it a couple of years ago).

Well, mine is the version my great-aunt used to say to me*, and she was a very polite lady.

*[SIZE="1"]although I couldn't remember it all myself, and had to look up the right words for the last two lines[/SIZE]

[Lazarus]

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The sad ting is that the mickey owners wife was the only one entitled to the mickey money .



I thought every damm thing was simply referred to as a "dat ting" or "dis ting" maybe even "dem tings".


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No lads, how it goes is:

"The whatchamaycallit is upstairs in the thingamigjig where the yoke used to be before I moved it because I bought the whatsit, ya know, that trouser press ting that himself never uses, useless hape of junk."

[Lazarus]

Skipping song: "last night, and the night before, 2 tom cats came knocking on the door. I woke to let one in the other danced the highland fling."

Bouncing ball chant: Little Nellie in her tent, she can't afford to pay the rent. The rent man cam and put her out, listen to poor Nellie shout.
Put her out, put her out, put her out. its not because she's dirty, its not because she's clean, its because she has the whooping cough the measles in between. My Mammy said if I ever let her in she'll give me 1, 2, 3 O'Reilly, 4,5,6 O'Reilly, 7,8,9 O'Reilly, 10 O'Reilly catch the ball.

Ah, the energy of youth

[PaddyJoe McGillycuddy]

We used to say: 'Where's yon chat gone?' 'Jaysus, I cant find that chat for the television'. 'Whatda you call that chat you lost last week?"

[Handy Gandhi]

Did ya get that!?